Demographic and Health Survey 1995 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 1995

Reference ID

UGA_1995_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Statistics Department, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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HH consumption deficit or surplus (C_CONSUMDEFICITFQ)

Data file: UGA1995-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 407

End: 408

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

27) In terms of household consumption, do you think that your household is:

Surplus household
Neither surplus nor deficit
Occasionally deficit
Always deficit

SURPLUS 1
NEITHER SURPLUS NOR DEFICIT 2
OCCASIONALLY DEFICIT 3
ALWAYS DEFICIT 4
DOES NOT KNOW 8

Value	Category
10	Surplus
20	Neither deficit nor surplus
30	Deficit
31	Occasional/sometimes deficit
32	Always deficit
96	Non-resident
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

CONSUMDEFICITFQ reports whether the household's (food) consumption could be best characterized as surplus, neither surplus nor deficit, occasional deficit, or always in deficit.

The information in CONSUMDEFICITFQ is taken from the household record and applies to household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors (coded "2") using:

RESIDENT variable when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis;
HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis;
RESIDENTMN variable when men are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Food insufficiency Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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